Steve Wodka
Appearances
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'Radioactive' - Ep. 4: The Investigators
If she truly had fallen asleep at the wheel, she'd be alive. She would have lived. So only by being awake... and trying to hold this car on course, which you have the trajectory that she did.
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'Radioactive' - Ep. 4: The Investigators
To me, it was more like an amateur job. Somebody else who, much, much lower, someone who didn't have access to the corporate power, someone whose job would have been directly on the line, realized what was going on with the documents. I think that they probably had the most to lose.
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'Radioactive' - Ep. 4: The Investigators
They open up the garage. And these three people show up. Well, only two of them were with the AEC.
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'Radioactive' - Ep. 4: The Investigators
In order to survey things for plutonium, like a spiral notebook with 50 pages in it, you just can't just wand around. the top of it and say it's clean. You've got to go page by page by page to see if there's any contamination in it.
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'Radioactive' - Ep. 4: The Investigators
Fagan tells me right off the bat that she fell asleep and went off the side of the road. I said, wait a minute, wait a minute, you don't understand. She was just on the highway for a few minutes.
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'Radioactive' - Ep. 4: The Investigators
And I'll never forget Fagan saying, look, In my mind, she fell asleep at the wheel of the car unless you can prove it differently. And that started in my mind the fact that, now wait a minute, the fix is in. Something is going on here. How could this guy just shut the door in my face? He's supposed to be an investigating officer.
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'Radioactive' - Ep. 4: The Investigators
And we ripped the box open and went through everything and there was nothing in there about quality control.
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'Radioactive' - Ep. 4: The Investigators
Now, this car had hit this concrete wing wall going 40 to 45 miles an hour. Silkwood was impaled on the steering wheel. But yet, he says there's these two piles of paper sitting on the back seat. It defies the law of gravity.
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'Radioactive' - Ep. 4: The Investigators
This is a muddy craft site. There is this reddish Oklahoma mud on the left-hand driver's side of the car. You got these three guys sitting there, papers scattered all over the place. Not one piece of the papers that were given to us had any mud on them. No mud whatsoever on the stuff that was given to us.